--On 22. august 2003 13:34 -0700 Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> wrote:
Harald,
HTA> and should make no assumptions on HTA> whether the trust is rooted in Verisign or psg.com, or is brokered through HTA> a mechanism that doesn't need a single root for its trust mechanism.
HTA> If "centralized conference control" doesn't mean that anyone with the HTA> required resources can be a center, I think we're on a very wrong path.
The style of protocol needed for a single, centralized control mechanism, versus a distributed and cooperative control mechanism, typically is quite different.
The obvious example would be centralized dns control -- as we now have for each node in the tree -- versus efforts to create multiple authorities for any given node, such as the root.
Did you have in mind a way to reconcile this?
no, I was responding to Henry Sinnreich's comment on "who will operate the centralized functions" only. I thought it was obvious from xcon's charter that "multiple authority for a single conference" conference management is out of scope, and I'm still talking about xcon.
Harald